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nahgallaco

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Trying to change the sound of a loco in 2009. It is an old steam loco but one which I have brought with me from early days. Apart from the sound it works fine.
I have tried everything I found on the Forum but must be missing something.
I have cloned the loco and copied enginesound from one I liked but it didn't work. Put the direct-drive 1 in the config file. Nothing changes.
The steam loco I want to change idles until it reaches about 90mph and doesn't reach any respectable sound until the speed is pushed to over 200mph. Not a realisitc idea.
Could someone please take a moment to list a step-by-step method of changing the sound OR alternatively, tell me how to speed up the existing sound to be more realistic.
Thanks.
Stuart.
 
Where'd you put the Direct-drive tag? It goes in the config of the driving wheels only. Make sure no other wheels have the tag, including any invisible bogeys.

Is your enginesound in the TRS2004/06 format? That has one fast sound, and 4 piston stroke sounds, whereas the newer format has 4 piston stroke sounds and multiple fast sounds in increasing RMPs.
 
In desperation I have tried the tag in any file related to the loco that I could find.
Made a clone -inserted the line - saved it - tried it - no change - removed it and repeated with a different file. No change.
Same with a few enginesound files. Tried any method I could think of.
Hence this post. Nothing works.
I might be missing something and so this request for detailed steps to take.
Confused. Maybe it just isn't possible.
I would like to know if it is impossible so I can stop wasting my time.
 
If you would post the kuid number of the old loco that you're posting about, maybe we could try it. Talking in generalities just doesn't get it.

Bob Weber
 
You said that you posted the line in anything related to the locos.

Well, put it in bogeys ONLY. In trailing and pilot bogies, set the value to zero. In the main driving whels, set it to 1.

Also, don't clone the asset! Cloning makes it have a new kuid, and you have ot link the new asset to the loco. You can open for edit in explorer, insert the tag, save and Commit the asset. If it is faulty, open it for edit and Revert it instead to put everything right.

To put a new sound on the loco, you must have the direct drive tags set correctly in each bogey that the loco uses.
Swap out the kuid of the old sound in the eninesound tag, and in the kuid table (at bottom of config) with the kuid of the new sound. There should be some tutorials on youtube, I think there is one on how to replace a hornsound, just replace the enginesound instead of the hornsound.
 
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What you must also remember is that a lot of us trainzers live in different time zones to you. Please be patient when waiting for a reply. I waited 3 weeks for help at one time. But it was help that was worth waiting for in the end.
 
nahgallaco said:
Trying to change the sound of a loco in 2009. It is an old steam loco but one which I have brought with me from early days. Apart from the sound it works fine.
I have tried everything I found on the Forum but must be missing something.
I have cloned the loco and copied enginesound from one I liked but it didn't work. Put the direct-drive 1 in the config file. Nothing changes.
The steam loco I want to change idles until it reaches about 90mph and doesn't reach any respectable sound until the speed is pushed to over 200mph. Not a realisitc idea.
Could someone please take a moment to list a step-by-step method of changing the sound OR alternatively, tell me how to speed up the existing sound to be more realistic.
Thanks.
Stuart.
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What about the engine spec that also can be the issue. I have changed the enginesound and the sound still would mess up like before, but when I changed the enginespec it went to sounds fine no problems.
 
rweber95 - A very old kuid 59906:4449. My favourite loco but, as I said, probably too old for 2009.
captainkman - I only cloned because the Forum had suggested that step. I did it one step at a time and removed the clone each time that it didn't work and then tried again with a new clone for the next change. I have now followed your suggestion but it still doesn't change the sound for me.
Stationbeem - Sorry to appear impatient. It didn't come out properly. I meant that I think the loco is too old and I am not going to get it to change.
Beattie - I couldn't find anything in the enginespec which looked like it was related to sound.

The existing sound doesn't change from an idling pace until the loco gets to about 80/90mph when it gets a little bit faster. Then it remains at that sound until one pushes the loco to 200mph (just to see what happens) when it begins to sound as if it is running at about 70mph.

Thanks for all the suggestions.
Stuart.
 
nahgallaco said:
rweber95 - A very old kuid 59906:4449. My favourite loco but, as I said, probably too old for 2009.
captainkman - I only cloned because the Forum had suggested that step. I did it one step at a time and removed the clone each time that it didn't work and then tried again with a new clone for the next change. I have now followed your suggestion but it still doesn't change the sound for me.
Stationbeem - Sorry to appear impatient. It didn't come out properly. I meant that I think the loco is too old and I am not going to get it to change.
Beattie - I couldn't find anything in the enginespec which looked like it was related to sound.

The existing sound doesn't change from an idling pace until the loco gets to about 80/90mph when it gets a little bit faster. Then it remains at that sound until one pushes the loco to 200mph (just to see what happens) when it begins to sound as if it is running at about 70mph.

Thanks for all the suggestions.
Stuart.
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Get this free program. I have used it successfully on several locomotive sound (WAV) files that were either too loud or too soft. I also found it to be user friendly. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...4kX4NIdhKr3J-FFGg&sig2=x2Ew9OLJXe1O6JdgyjbcUQ

If the link doesn't work the programs name is Audacity. It is a beta program.

tomurban
 
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Thanks guys.
Got the program okay but it didn't do what I wanted it to.
I would like to speed up the sound a bit to make it seem more realistic.
 
Stationbeem said:
What you must also remember is that a lot of us trainzers live in different time zones to you. Please be patient when waiting for a reply. I waited 3 weeks for help at one time. But it was help that was worth waiting for in the end.
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Three weeks for a sunrise? I know Leicester is a little south of 'ull but that is a bit much! :)
Rog
 
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